Windows 10 boot camp

If you upgrade from W7/W8 to W10, the old drivers should continue to work.

butcherbird190 wrote:

yes, but I'm asking Apple to include new drivers for everything else that has never been supported in Boot Camp. 😉

I am curious if there is any new hardware support needed on a Mac already running W7/W8 when upgrading to W10. If there are virtual device drivers, then it is understandable. 😉

TB Drivers - most likely in a couple of months, but the OS still needs to do a better job of loading drivers. OSX seems to handle TB much better than Windows.

Sleep/Hibernate - This is an OS issue, not a driver issue. W7/W8+ are really terrible at driver loading/unloading.

Plug/Play is on par with OSX.

One example, which I would like the Windows 10 to fix is support for TRRS headsets. W7/W8 do not work at all.

Amen!

I have a similar question, although I have not so much as laid eyes on Win 10.

I have a late-2009 MacBook Pro with Windows 7 in Boot Camp. Windows 8 was available for purchase when I installed Windows, but I my machine did not qualify. Now I read that any computer that runs Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1 can get the free upgrade to Windows 10. Something doesn't add up. If my machine couldn't handle Win 8.1, why should I expect it to handle Windows 10?

Microsoft let me know that I could "reserve" a free upgrade to Win 10, and I reflexively clicked "Yes" to the invitation. I further understand that Win 10 will install automatically when Microsoft releases the new OS. My next question, then: Have I set myself up for disaster come July 29 (the release date for Windows 10)? I have this recurring nightmare about the Win 10 upgrade bricking my beloved Mac. I'm looking for any advice. My searches have turned up very little on this topic.

Oh, one more question: Who do you suppose is better prepared to answer the question—Apple or Microsoft?

Thanks!

Your are confusing the 'free' W10 with the computing resources it will need. Apple made a conscious decision to disallow W8 on older hardware because in their estimation, W8 resource requirements could not be satisfied by the specific HW on which they were disallowed. there were no plan for drivers for newer OSes on older hardware, etc..

I suggest you try W10 on newer hardware rather than 2009 Macs, which are 6+ years old. Check W10 System Requirements on the M$ website.

The drivers and the OS have to work hand-in-hand. If the OS is unable to load drivers properly when a machine comes out of sleep, the responsibility is the OS's. Sleep/Hibernate implementations leave a lot to be desired. For example, coming out sleep, a new instance of a WiFi adapter is created on W7. This is not a driver issue. SD card driver (written by Apple) does not work properly on Windows but works properly on the same hardware in OSX.

TB is very interesting. On the same hardware, OS X will recognize and allow devices to come out of sleep, but W8.1 will not. Fast Boot causes Boot Camp: Thunderbolt devices not recognized after Windows 8 upgrade - Apple Support .

This is not pointing at the OS or drivers in order to blame either, but the orchestration between the two, to provide a better user experience.

W10 is a good OS. The challenge is to make it work on Apple as well as it does on ASUS and Dell hardware.

Unfortunately, all my testing of W10 has been on PCs. I have played a bit with W10 on a Mac, which was upgraded from W8.1 to W10 TP. It is not as significant as many others have tried, including, perhaps you.

If you can post a link to the MS Forum on this subject, then I can follow it, and perhaps join the Dark Side and post on the discussion. 👿

On UEFI Macs, life is much simpler with quicker installations.

Thanks for the information, Loner T. On your advice, I'll skip the upgrade to W10, at least until I trade up for a new MacBook Pro. Or perhaps I'll choose to just stick with Apple completely.